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  • From: "Toni Hawryluk" <tonihawr AT msn.com>
  • To: "Homestead mailing list" <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Homestead] now where did that job go ?
  • Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 18:28:02 -0700

September 10, 2004

Update: 10,553 More Jobs Moved Offshore
Tech company offers "Exchange Program" to U.S. employees

White collar workers feel the pains of globalization. Today's TechsUnite
Offshore Tracker update adds more than 10,000 U.S. jobs to the offshore list,
and 25 new company culprits. This brings the total number of tracked jobs
moving offshore to more than a quarter of a million (250,000) since
TechsUnite began tracking the jobs in January of this year.

Synygy, Inc<http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/J71c3RS1Rcad/>., a technology
company based out of Pennsylvania, tries to ease the sting of offshoring by
what the company dubs as an "exchange program" for its U.S. employees. As
positions swiftly move offshore to the company's new facilities in Pune,
India, or Iasi, Romania, employees have the opportunity to move with them.

Oliver Pitcher, a spokesman for the company, affirms that permanent
employees, who enter the program, will receive all the same salary and
benefits as their fellow Indian and Romanian co-workers. According to
Pitcher, employees may earn 70% less than they did with their positions in
the U.S., but the cost of living in Pune is much cheaper. "You may even save
money", Pitcher adds.

According to ComputerWorld magazine, Synygy Chief Technology officer, Chetan
Shah, notes, "It (the "exchange program") helps people gain experience and
understand why this global model is so important." The article appeared in
the July 2004 edition of ComputerWorld, and focuses on consumer
dissatisfaction and employee anger over moving U.S. jobs offshore.

Synygy, Inc claims that no employees have been laid off due to the company's
offshoring work. However, an anonymous employee told WashTech that as many
as 150 have been laid off, and that current employees are worried that their
day will come.

Check out the offshore tracker :
http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/<http://www.techsunite.org/offshore/>

Add a company to our list<http://www.unionvoice.org/ct/D11c3RS1RcaB/>



  • [Homestead] now where did that job go ?, Toni Hawryluk, 09/10/2004

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